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whosasailorthen wrote:

choad wrote:

These images displayed with 'More To Come" alerts before commercial breaks on the Carson Tonight Show. So did this...

Most of the between-segment graphics, like those above, were actually created by Carson's own son.

I know. Here's Carson's Shirley Temple.

And the 1936 studio image he adapted.

Reason I fell down this rabbit hole was a Look Magazine cover image of the same vintage featuring my mother, a Shirley Temple look alike. My grandfather was a Condé Nast ad exec, later responsible for such horrors as The Breck Girls.